Figure AI Livestreams 8-Hour Autonomous Robot Shift — 2.6 Seconds Per Package, Multi-Robot Failover

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Figure AI livestreamed its Figure 03 humanoid robots running a full 8-hour warehouse shift autonomously using the Helix-02 neural network. In the first 10 minutes, the system sorted 230 packages at ~2.6 seconds each. The Helix-02 system unifies vision, touch, and proprioception into one model for long-horizon tasks. Most notable: autonomous failover — if a robot detects an issue, it self-diagnoses, walks to maintenance, and requests a fleet replacement with no humans in the loop. A 'strange moment' during the stream drew 3,238 upvotes and 697 comments on r/singularity.